Hid­den money started to rot

A 69-year-old woman in Hu­lu­dao has lost a chunk of her sav­ings af­ter the cash she hid in the roof of her house started to rot. The woman hid 18,000 yuan ($2,659) she had re­ceived from her chil­dren for her birth­day three years ago. She took the money to bank and was told only 12,850 yuan was sal­vage­able.